id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-11394 Shera, Jesse H. Borrowings from the Bristol Library, 1773-1874; A Unique Record of Reading Vogues (Book Review) 1961-01-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1977 100 66 T h e Bristol Library Society, a voluntary association of the type familiar to students of library history on this side of the Atlantic, was inaugurated in 1773, with a charter membership of 132 citizens who contributed one guinea annually to maintain the organ- ization. Within a year the Society had ac- quired 574 titles—not an inauspicious be- ginning for early libraries of this type. cache/crl-11394.pdf txt/crl-11394.txt